Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without a credible running game, the Bulldog offense was helpless as the Penn linebackers and secondary sat back in deep coverage and batted away most of the on-target passes...
...help is to set a rigorous example. The setting for this ambitious exchange is a world conference on hunger being held in Bombay in 1978. By this device, Hare introduces a second spokesman on behalf of the Third World, a Senegalese diplomat (Ving Rhames) who voices the helpless rage of mendicant nations forced to accept aid on conditions that effectively rescind their hard-won independence. All three polemicists are superbly played as variations on a theme of personal dignity...
...given situation, Eagleburger warns, the U.S. is liable to find itself temporarily helpless. But that should never, he says, lead the country or its leadership to a failure of nerve in attempting to strike back at gunmen like the Achille Lauro hijackers. Says he: "The important thing is that we not be deterred from punishing people like these because of a fear that there will be more terrorist attacks." Last week the Reagan Administration certainly communicated to the world that it would not be deterred. Few doubted White House Spokesman Speakes when he declared after the EgyptAir interception that...
Immigrants seeking the legal right to live in the U.S. are often desperate and helpless, and for that reason immigration law is a booming specialty. Membership in the American Immigration Lawyers Association has tripled in the past decade, to 1,800, and there are thousands of other lawyers who do immigration work part time. Yet despite the efforts of the A.I.L.A. and others to upgrade the field, immigration law has a less than sterling reputation...
...Arthur Toga, 32, tried to describe his feelings. "I fear for her, not knowing about my well-being, so I think about that a great deal," he said. "I think about the fact that I don't know how long we're going to be here. I feel very helpless because wheels that are turning behind my back to facilitate our release are totally beyond my . . . I can do nothing about...